On Freitag, 5. September 2008, Temlakos wrote:
> Markus:
>
> Will this latest release require MediaWiki 1.13? Rumors so have it.
We are the only authorised source of SMW rumours ;-)
SMW 1.3 will continue to work on MediaWiki 1.11 upwards, with added support
for the current development version of 1.14. Of course, it is still
recommendable to upgrade MediaWiki to a recent version in any case.
I do not know about all extensions, though most SMW extensions that run with
SMW 1.2 will directly work with SMW 1.3, since no major change occurred in
the storage internals or API. An exception are result printers (adding query
formats), that need to simplify their code as by my earlier mail. Halo 1.3 is
known to work for SMW 1.3, and Semantic Forms are already in use at
semanticweb.org (I hear no complaints about problems there). Semantic
Drilldown should be fine as well.
Markus
>
> Temlakos
>
> Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > we intend to release the next version of Semantic MediaWiki, SMW 1.3,
> > before Monday. So this is the time for final feedback and urgent bug
> > reports. The SVN version of SMW should be quite usable already -- note
> > that, for upgrading, you need to update using Special:SMWAdmin or the
> > script SMW_setup.php. Running a refresh script is not required if you
> > upgrade from SMW 1.2*.
> >
> > You can also test the recent SVN-version on
> > sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org or see it working on semanticweb.org.
> >
> >
> > So what is new in SMW 1.3?
> >
> > * New Special:Browse. We have overhauled the interface to make it more
> > readable, and to generally act as a useful Factbox replacement. It
> > currently does not show special properties and categories, but this will
> > be finished before SMW 1.3. There are some more features. See Denny's
> > email.
> >
> > The final SMW 1.3 will disable the Factbox display by default and include
> > a browsing link in the toolbox instead, leading to the current page's
> > browse view. So Special:Browse is really meant as a Factbox replacement
> > and should be looked at as such.
> >
> > * New "Search By Property" (the thing you get when clicking "?" icons).
> > the interface is pretty similar, but the search now supports "fuzzy"
> > retrieval to find not just exact but also close-by matches (for
> > properties that are numeric or dates). See Denny's other email.
> >
> > * Improved interface for Concept: pages. These pages now look like
> > categories, including the result browsing features if there are many
> > results. So concepts are closer to their idea of being "dynamic
> > categories".
> >
> > * Query caching for concepts. It is now possible to pre-compute query
> > answers for concept pages, so as further speed up the wiki. Concept
> > caches are created and deleted with a new maintenance script
> > SMW_conceptCache.php (run with option --help for details).
> >
> > This feature is intended especially for *large* wikis that still would
> > like to offer some complex query results but may not dare to generally
> > allow complex queries in all cases. SMW can now be configured to allow
> > complicated concepts only in cached form, so users can create concepts in
> > the wiki, but results are only displayed when the admin updates the
> > caches. This requires a more detailed documentation -- for now, ask me on
> > this list if you feel that your wiki could benefit from faster querying
> > in certain cases. I note, however, that inline queries are already very
> > fast and are often no performance problem on medium-sized wikis.
> > semanticweb.org, for example, spends less than 3% of overall execution
> > time on query answering, including the retrieval of all printout data.
> >
> > * Finally, there were various bug fixes and performance improvements, as
> > well as some clean-up of code that will continue in upcoming releases.
> >
> >
> > Comments are welcome!
> >
> > Markus
> >
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